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Should passports become obsolete?
After all, you don’t need a passport to travel across State lines within the U.S., so why do foreigners need a passport or even a visa to enter the United States? Why won’t any government-issued I.D. suffice? Heck, why do we even … Continue reading
Nous somme Charlie Hebdo
Nous ne sommes pas encore libres?
“Give me liberty or give me … social science?”
Richard Thaler argues in his Economic View column in the Sunday Times that social scientists should play a greater role in shaping public policy, but prior probability wonders whether the opposite is true. After all, most published social “science” findings are false, and moreover, so-called social “scientists” … Continue reading
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